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Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) pair with brood, Warren Woods Road, Buchanan Township, Berrien County, Michigan.
Cuiaba River
The Pantanal
Brazil
South America
The giant otter or giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) is a South American carnivorous mammal. It is the longest member of the Mustelidae, or weasel family, a globally successful group of predators, reaching up to 1.7 m (5.6 ft). Atypical of mustelids, the giant otter is a social species, with family groups typically supporting three to eight members. The groups are centered on a dominant breeding pair and are extremely cohesive and cooperative. Although generally peaceful, the species is territorial, and aggression has been observed between groups. The giant otter is diurnal, being active exclusively during daylight hours. It is the noisiest otter species, and distinct vocalizations have been documented that indicate alarm, aggressiveness, and reassurance.
The giant otter ranges across north-central South America; it lives mostly in and along the Amazon River and in the Pantanal.
For more info go to:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_otter
The Imperial Vault of Heaven is a single-gabled circular building, built on a single level of marble stone base. It is located south of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests and resembles it, but is smaller. It is surrounded by the smooth circular Echo Wall, that can transmit sounds over large distances. The Imperial Vault is connected to the Hall of Prayer by the Vermilion Steps Bridge, a 360m-long raised walkway that slowly ascends from the Vault to the Hall of Prayer (on which I was standing). The dome for this building also has no crossbeams to support the dome.
It is part of the Temple of Heaven complex in south-eastern Beijing. The temple complex was constructed from 1406 to 1420 during the reign of the Yongle Emperor, who was also responsible for the construction of the Forbidden City. The complex was extended and renamed Temple of Heaven during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor in the 16th century. The Temple of Heaven was renovated in the 18th century under the Qianlong Emperor. By then, the state budget was insufficient, so this was the last large-scale renovation of the temple complex in imperial times.
The Temple of Heaven complex was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998 and was described as "a masterpiece of architecture and landscape design which simply and graphically illustrates a cosmogony of great importance for the evolution of one of the world’s great civilizations..." as the "symbolic layout and design of the Temple of Heaven had a profound influence on architecture and planning in the Far East over many centuries."
Unlike most of the complex, the Hall is actually a reproduction. The original building was burned down by a fire caused by lightning in 1889. The current building, above, was rebuilt several years after the incident.
It is interesting (to me at least!) that the few scattered tourists all appear to be Chinese residents. Scanned from a negative.
A lovely charming group of a family with no less that seven children, with a nice mix of girls and boys. Commissioned by Mr. Flynn of High Street, Waterford, their children look like there are a few characters in the bunch. The oldest girl is holding back a giggle, the next oldest is posing carefully, while the youngest has the look of trouble about her. While that was a medium sized family at that time, it would be considered a large family in today's world!
Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Collection
Date: Sunday, 8 March 1908
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 1789a
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For "Lost at Sea" a group show at Gallery Hanahou, May 6-June 11
gallery hanahou
611 Broadway, Suite 730, NYC galleryhanahou.com
I'm sure we as photographers, we are always courteous...
Here's an example of how karma works in your favour.
I was asked to shoot a small Highland Wedding at a venue that I was not familiar with. When applying the due diligence, I went to the venue a couple of days prior to the event. To both introduce myself to the Registrar and to quickly scout the location.
The meeting went extremely well... so much so, I was granted additional access to an out of bounds area, without even asking for it.
This allowed for this image to be taken with an exclusive and unique viewpoint. I hasten to add which my couple were most delighted with.
Moral of this tale is, always be courteous... rewards will most certainly follow.
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A family group - having a bonding experience? Littermates, at any rate, outside their den in a prairie dog down. Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan.
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Today the We're Here group as members are looking into their archives for the Not Your Ordinary Family Portrait group.
With only two of us here I've had to be inventive.
Original in comments
Pottery artwork made and gifted to me by my kid sister. I adore it because it is so tactile, with different textures, and to me, it has a lot of femininity in it, a mother huging her children.
A composition used in Week 13 - Memories and keepsakes - set by the Compositionally Challenged Group
Mar #30
Staying with Poole for the last shot of the week we have a Mr McCoy and his family with pony and horse. In this instance the fabulous hat is on the baby rather than on the mother but what a hat it is. We especially love the basket saddle(?) for the baby...
The background to this image was a little challenging at times to identify - making it all the sweeter however when several moments of inspiration from sharon.corbet made for a fairly firm theory on the subjects, location and date of this image. The comments for this one will make for interesting reading on the investigative process involved, but - in short - there is firm consensus that the "real McCoy" here is Archibald S McCoy (solicitor), with his wife Mary Helen, and baby also named Mary Helen. The "John Shiel" mentioned in the catalogue notes is established to be in fact "John's Hill", where the family were living at the time of the photo. The date (established by location and most importantly age of the infant) is likely c.1901 - when the family were living in a house very much like this one (and likely this particular one given similarities) during the 1901 census.
Massive kudos and thanks are due to all who contributed - but in particular to sharon....
Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Studio, Waterford
Date: Likely c.1901
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 1175a
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
A formal portrait taken after the funeral, in 1984, of Theotophetericus Grant*, known to everyone as 'Peter', who had died aged 89, of a heart attack, whilst on stage in a local production of 'Jesus Christ Superstar'. 'Peter' had been playing the role of 'Peter'.
*Our Rosie's husband David's grandfather, who disowned David, for obvious reasons.
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These elephants were off to get a drink at Airstrip 2 pan in Hwange National Park. There were huge numbers at each pan on a daily basis, with groups ranging from 3 or 4, to 20 or more. Each part of the pan had a specific purpose which all the elephants recognised, so there would be drinking in one bit, rolling in the mud in another and so on. There was also pan etiquette, so no pushing and shoving, but each elephant waiting it's turn. Absolutely fascinating to watch!
Vintage family scene in Hungary, 1960s, featuring a man on a motorcycle and family members outdoors.
Notice how the 4 women ( + man) are walking instep with each other!
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Common Pheasant / phasianus colchicus. Private site, Derbyshire. 25/09/15.
A few evenings ago I was about to leave my site when a hen pheasant walked up to the biggest building with a well grown family of four juveniles. The light was beautiful and I was keen to capture them.
Unfortunately I was already in my car, so unable to manoeuvre into a more favourable position or indeed, a ground level one. Even though the whole group entered and became lost to view, I still didn't risk making any noise or movement.
After about ten minutes I became aware that the juveniles had moved back up to the entrance in single file and equally spaced. The front bird, a juvenile male, became bathed in golden light...he looked magnificent and I loved how the random adult feathers he'd moulted into, really shone through.
So this is the image I made of the encounter. Another one and a half siblings can be seen behind the leading bird.
When I look at it, I can't help wishing it was made whilst I was laying on the deck and positioned more centrally to the entrance.
Imagine, a well spaced line of four youngsters in different strengths of golden light....now that would have been nice!!!
Creator: Peiniger, Don J.
Description: Studio photograph of a bride and bridegroom with their bridesmaid and best man. The bride and groom are posed behind a carved wooden stand, the bride's bouquet resting on the stand. The bridesmaid and best man are seated in front and to either side of the bridal couple. The bride and bridesmaid wear typical twenties style dresses and hats.
On mount at lower right: Don J. Peiniger, Townsville and Charters Towers.
View this photo at the State Library of Queensland: hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/215404
Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/picture-queensland
From a Kodachrome slide hand dated 24 November 1956. Theodore Kross (1916-2011) photographer.
The artwork is by Ted's sister, Rosemary Hilberg (1922-2003), who is sitting on the sofa. See: prabook.com/web/rosemary_helen.hilberg/557914
Finally, my luck changed today. On a day that was predicted to be rainy, I went out under a beautiful, warm sun: 20 degrees--positively tropical!
I rode to Maruyama-koen, about 15 minutes from the house by bike. Immediately upon arriving, the first two birds I saw were female Japanese Green Pheasants: a new bird and the first time I had seen a pheasant in the wild. Pity the males weren't around.
I then went stooging around, looking at buntings and Hawfinches, before returning to a promising looking spot to wait for birds to turn up. No sooner had I been waiting for 5 minutes or so than a flock of 5 Long-tailed Rosy Finches appeared over the surrounding bushes. The flock included one immature male, one adult male (this bird) and three females. This was the first time I had seen a male, and I was bowled over. A truly stunning bird.
I was even more bowled over when, whilst photographing one of the females, it flew in and suddenly appeared just in front of me. An extremely attractive bird and an extremely lucky moment.
There are very few shots of males of this species on flickr, although they are not rare. I don't think they are too common in suburban Tokyo though.
...this juvenile Blue-faced Honeyeater still has the young green colouring but it is magestically athletic!
This adult Common Crane was an unfortunate casualty of a wind turbine strike at La Janda, Cadiz Province Andalucia, Spain some 9 years ago. This lovely adult bird had a broken wing but fed for around 18 months before dying.
Crane sexes are difficult to separate in the field although females are a little bit bigger in structure.
Taken in Winchester Cathedral. These were part of a group travelling from one cathedral to another in 17th century costume.
these are the short clawed otters at martin mere, unfortunately they are endangered in the wild due to poaching and habitat loss
i just love their little ‘fingers’ !
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The Canada goose (Branta canadensis) is a goose with a black head and neck, white patches on the face, and a brown body. Native to arctic and temperate regions of North America, it also occasionally migrates to northern Europe, and has been introduced to Britain, New Zealand, and other temperate regions.
he Canada goose was one of the many species described by Carl Linnaeus in his 18th-century work Systema Naturae. It belongs to the Branta genus of geese, which contains species with largely black plumage, distinguishing them from the grey species of the Anser genus. The specific epithet canadensis is a New Latin word meaning "from Canada". According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first citation for the 'Canada goose' dates back to 1772. The Canada goose is often incorrectly referred to as the "Canadian goose".
The cackling goose was originally considered to be the same species or a subspecies of the Canada goose, but in July 2004 the American Ornithologists' Union's Committee on Classification and Nomenclature split the two into two species, making cackling goose into a full species with the scientific name Branta hutchinsii. The British Ornithologists' Union followed suit in June 2005
An old favourite revisited and re-worked.
Scanned Kodak colour negative film. Processed to 'sepia' using Lab colour space functions in Serif PhotoPlus software. Mamiya C220 camera. March 1979.
Barn Swallow / hirundo rustica. Derbyshire (private site). 12/06/15.
Back on the old nest after some exploratory flights around the inside of the building, to test their wings. I have a feeling the parent birds took over a Blackbirds nest on the girder. They seem to have lined the cup with mud pellets and feathers. The residence is looking pretty manky now though!
On a hot day at Cleethorpes as lockdown eases.
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Sokol, an all-age athletic organization, was first founded in Prague in 1862. It was based upon the principle of “a strong mind in a sound body.” The movement soon spread across all the regions populated by Slavic cultures. The word “Sokol” means falcon, a symbol of freedom among Slavs at the time. There were local and regional Sokol events yearly, called Slets, with huge “All-Sokol” national and even international Slets at longer intervals.
Sokol developed and thrived during the heyday of postcards, the late 19th and early 20th century. Hundreds of postcards, many designed by famous artists of the era, were produced as advertising and souvenirs for Sokol events. Gymnastics and calisthenics are central to the Sokol physical culture system, and Slets incorporate demonstrations and competitions of those activities, which are featured prominently on many of the postcards.
[Source: alphabetilately.org/Sokol/1920.html]
Common Cranes (Grus grus) on migration, Germany.
The Common Crane breeds in wetlands in Germany, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Poland, Russia and Sweden. At the start of Autumn with short days with less hours of light available for feeding, they start the most fascinating stage of their lives - the southbound migration. Many thousands of birds from all parts meet up, calling as they go, encouraging others to lift off and head south with them. Their behaviour at huge overnight roosts is a really attractive and an extremely loud vocal phenomenon.
Cranes use three main migratory routes from Europe and Asia Minor. All of the groups will spend time at many different feeding and roosting sites where weather and the availability of food determine if its time to move further south or not.
The western route, used by about 160.000 birds, takes them to spend the winter in Spain, Portugal and small numbers in Morocco.
The central or Baltic route, where approximately 140 000 cranes try to reach Africa from Poland crossing Serbia and Italy.
Lastly, the eastern route, used by an undetermined number* of cranes, leave from Estonia and Russia, crosses Turkey and Egypt and arrives to Ethiopia.
*(Israel's Hula Valley and small lake there on the eastern route attracts more that 120,000 cranes alone.)